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Nice job mate.
Snake Pliskin said:I owe you a personal response to your posts and your mass mail to my tribe, I think. I am leaving the game sometime soon and from what I have seen so far, I am afraid you need help to avoid congratulating yourself for my absence.
I am sending this note to you both, but I am assuming that the two of you are the same player. I will copy it to one or two other members of your tribe, players who’s words and actions have earned them my respect. They should be aware of my thoughts.
Two points:
First point: your thread on the externals is irrelevant, and a bit creepy. I have never seen someone go to such great lengths to chronicle what every player on the server has known for a month and a half: that the combination of ~AD~ and 404 now can probably overmatch BJ and take over the server. Duh! You’ll continue to get a fight (perhaps because you are taking such false credit for your success) but anyone who could read a map and understand strategy and tactics could have told you what was about to go down, without your detailed reports.
Your reports are remarkable (I actually haven’t clicked on the spoilers, only looked at the surface – but PLEASE send me no links thank you I don’t need any more details! lmao). Seriously, you act like you are somehow relevant, like this is a contest and your descriptions have meaning! They don’t. I guess you said it best yourself in one of your own posts: “These stats updates take up tons of my time and effort. Nevertheless, I have nothing better to do”. Obviously!
Apparently you put so much time into this irrelevance that you became offended when no one from BJ responded on the forums, hence your mail to us. You felt you had to send us all a personal link! (I never clicked on it, and I never asked around to see if anyone else did – does it matter?!) It seemed a bit desperate, almost, well, creepy.
You sound needy – like you crave confirmation that your game skill somehow made all of this happen. Whoa! I will grant that you have some good players, but skill had no bearing on your success. The server was handed to you when your only two competent opponents, BJ and Sie AQ, decided to war one another. The future was set at that moment -- no matter who won that fight, ~AD~/404 would emerge with a staggering advantage.
Don’t you remember (it was only April and May) how you were all urinating down your own legs while we were nobling out Option C? One of your ranking members explained to me how you were forced to make peace with kategikos to prevent further loss. Then you tried to cobble together that pathetic “grand alliance” with AQ. That was a real ~AD~ lowlight. You all knew then you had absolutely no route to victory with BJ and Sie AQ together opposing you. I am not claiming that we had any route to victory over you, either – don’t take this as some sort of boast, an error you have made in the past about me – I am only claiming what you know is true, that is, that your road to server domination at that time was blocked, and you all knew it.
Again, you have some good players – about three or four, I may even go five or six – but you are collectively average at best, you have the same inactive problems we have, and this is a garbage server (any server that tolerated the existence of *SD* for that long can be termed nothing else). Frankly, all the .us servers have been so far. So your exhaustive self-congratulatory efforts ring hollow. Settle down and sober up.
Second point: I have needed to leave the game since April, but I stayed on for the AQ fight, and then I could see like everyone else that you would take advantage of the power vacuum created by the BJ/Sie AQ fight, and so I have stayed on an extra three months for the sake of my tribe. I have now regretted the waste of time. Damn!
I stupidly didn’t want to give you or my tribe mates the impression that I left at the beginning of the war because of the war. That was a foolish error on my part – why should I have ever cared what you think? My real life waited another three months, and I am kicking myself for being a fool. My real life is far more important than what you or even my tribe mates, whom I deeply respect, think.
It’s just a game, it’s not life
I would rather fail at a game than at life
Anyone can get good at this game
I did! And this is the first account I ever played. And the last!
Trust me on this: my decision to leave the game had been made even before the BJ/Sie AQ war had broken out (that held it up first) and I have a half dozen tribe mates to back me up on that. But please don’t pester them like a kid brother. I know it will take every ounce of your willpower not to ask around, or to congratulate yourself that it was all you, but I am sure you can do it if you try. Just, for once, try?
Although I know you probably won’t post this message from me un-edited on your forum, it doesn’t matter: I won’t know if you did, because I am done with the game, on this and any server. I am sure as a forum moderator you will be able to see if I logged on or not. I won’t be logging on.
And, again, please don’t pester tribe mates about me. You need to sober up.
The only satisfaction a bully takes is to put down others in hopes of propping up his own weak self esteem, and I won’t be back to give you the chance. I am done. Like I said, sober up.
In all seriousness, bullying is a fundamental defect, and I urge you to confront this in yourself and find a path forward that will lead you to peace, whatever that is for you. Playing this game is not helping you as a person. (It didn’t help me, either – I am a fool to have played it this long, enjoyable though it is)
Take note that only a very few of the adult players in your own tribe ever respond to your posts. That should give you pause to consider the nature of your posts, and what they truly mean to you personally, and to others.
Although I am disappointed in the in-game defects I have outlined above, I really and truly wish you well in real life. Good luck.
Snake Pliskin
Me said:You successfully lost the large amount of respect I had for you within the span of one message. For all your flowery protestations that I am a bully, overly addicted to this game, and needy, you seem to think that it's me who takes the game too seriously while you are exposing "personal defects" you believe I have based on game actions. In addition, you seem to be attributing far more importance to yourself than we do as a tribe. Disappointing, to say the least.
I chronicle not because I care to show what's going on to make some kind of propaganda point, but because this is effectively going to be the last war of W1. I chronicle so anyone who is fighting knows what happened and how, and how the world was won. And lastly, I chronicle to continually reinforce the fact that we will not lose. Not because I care what you all think, but because our members deserve to see the results of their efforts as a tribe outlined in world history. I don't care for your tribe. If I did, I would've stopped when it became apparent you would not respond. But I did not. Already attributing too much importance to your opinions than I do, I can see. Obviously they are relevant, as a description of a world that is in line for us to win. Just because I want to remember when I was able to win a world, even if it is on an online game, doesn't mean I care too much or care for your opinions; it solely means I want to remember when (as an 18 year old) I managed to outsmart through diplomacy, talking, and gameplay a good majority of other people. No, I didn't do it alone, and I actually deserve only a minuscule amount of the credit for it, but I'd like to at least remember that in this area, I was able to succeed. I care no less or more than you, who stuck around extra months just for the Sie AQ/BJ war, as you put it.
My mail had the sole purpose of attempting to speed up the world's end. Truth be told, while it didn't achieve said effect, it did fill some of my spare time and did have an effect on at least one player, and I'll take any player quitting as a success in my book as it brings the world 1 player closer to ending in our favor. Once more, you think I care far more for your responses than I actually do.
Have fun arguing the past. Put simply, you can argue history all you want, but it seems to me that you care far more for the game than I do in the end.
You stayed an extra three months and assume that I attribute too much time to the game? Hah, hypocrisy at its finest. Just because I take an hour a week to make a stat update, and spend 15 minutes on a mail, doesn't mean much when compared to the hypocrisy you've just presented.
Congrats on doing "so well" on your first account.
Like I said, I have no care for why you left. But, as always, I will make the point that the game contributes to you leaving. Obviously there's some RL issues you need to handle (and I'm the addicted one, according to your tribe thanks to the picture I'm now assuming you painted for them ), but those RL issues probably wouldn't exist if not for the pressures of the game. Not to mention that if the game were less demanding (AKA we weren't at war), you could probably get by with a temporary sitter. So no, the game doesn't have to be the only reason, but you can't handle the pressure of your RL because of the game. Some can juggle it, some can't. I'm definitely not saying we take all the credit, but the game and the tribes you fought deserve some credit for your quitting. But hey, I don't care, do what you want.
I've already shown your message to my leadership in unedited form. I want them to see how disgustingly insulting it is, how hypocritical, and how little respect they should keep for you after your accusations that you made, once more, based on a game. And then I'm the one who's addicted or takes it too seriously? How preposterous.
No, I can't tell if you logged on, nor do I care. Again, stop assuming I give even the slightest care that you are quitting, responding, or whatever.
You take my in-game actions and call me a bully? So if I win by making players quit, I am a bully? If I out-war someone, I am a bully? Well, in that case, let me sit back and not give my all to my tribe (so long as it doesn't interfere with my RL). That is the fundamental problem with BJ and you; you seem to think that if you give too much effort into fighting that you are a bully. Take your "bully" accusations elsewhere, my self-esteem is not boosted by this game. I play this game for enjoyment and to win, because I enjoy winning. I enjoy making friends, and I have done that with those who haven't already taken on some vague assumption that I am a bully because I try and make other players quit. I suggest you start dividing this game from your RL especially quickly, as your accusations cross RL and game borders and seem to mix the two.
Take note that my tribe and I get along very well. Just because they don't respond to my posts on the forums, doesn't mean they don't respond continuously in chats. They thank me for putting up the updates so they can see how they are progressing, and how others are progressing. Your ignorance, assumptions, and hypocrisy in this entire message disgust me. I had a very high amount of respect for you, but you've simply destroyed any respect I had for you with this message.
Have fun in your real life, and do try and realize this is just a game. You seem to be lacking the very thing you are telling me I lack, when in reality I do not.
Bye bye,
Or-el/u6s5l./The SmashNasty
I will no longer be doing stat updates.